Can't someone be both a hero and a traitor? Definition of traitor: "a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle." He betr

Can't someone be both a hero and a traitor? Definition of traitor: "a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle." He betrayed the trust placed in him by the NSA, because he believed (rightly) we deserved to know the excesses that were being conducted. He's a hero because he knew the risk would be a long term prison sentence, or as it stands effect exile from his home and his family. It's not a binary, the world isn't black and white.